There is a highly unequal distribution of land use between livestock and crops for human consumption. If we combine pastures used for grazing with land used to grow crops for animal feed, livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land. While livestock takes up most of the world’s agricultural land it only produces 18% of the world’s calories and 37% of total protein.
Glaciers cover 10% of the world, and a further 19% are barren land
deserts, dry salt flats, beaches, dunes, and exposed rocks.1 This leaves what we call ‘habitable land’. Half of all habitable land is used for agriculture.
This leaves only 37% for forests; 11% as shrubs and grasslands;
1% as freshwater coverage; and the remaining 1% – a much smaller share than many suspects – is a built-up urban area which includes cities, towns, villages, roads and other human infrastructure.
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